Joey Manley tell us: In this week’s Webhead column over at Comicon Pulse, I look at webcomics drama — back-biting, flamewars, gossip, and intrigue. You know you love it! I also call out the five biggest trouble-makers in webcomics. By name. Are you one of them?
If you are the creator of an established “adult” or “erotic” webcomic, and would like to be a beta tester for the new AdultWebcomics.com hosting and automation service, which will be powered by the Web Comics Nation software engine, post to this TalkAboutComics thread. Be sure to include:
1. The URL of your existing adult or erotic webcomic
2. Some details about how you’d like to use a hosting and automation service (what’s your business model, your update schedule, etc)
I will select somewhere between 10 and 20 beta testers. Selection will not be based on quality, popularity, or anything like that — I’m looking for a wide variety of people who will use the service in a wide variety of ways (and will therefore ensure that every little bit of the service gets tested). So, for example, if cartoonist X and cartoonist Y plan to use the service in exactly the same ways, only one of them will be selected — probably the first one to post.
Note that *only* people with adult or erotic webcomics will be accepted. That’s a reversal, eh?
Beta testers will get free accounts for life.
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Joey Manley, publisher of the leading commercial webcomics site, Modern Tales, announced today that WebcomicsNation.com, a premier hosting and automation service for online cartoonists, has launched today.
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The Lulu Awards, given every year at San Diego Comic-Con by the Friends of Lulu, have been announced. Several members of the webcomics community got nods this year, including Shaenon K. Garrity and The Flight Anthology (tie for Lulu of the Year) and Vera Brosgol (Kim Yale Award). Another facet of the Internet’s impact on the comics industry as a whole was also represented in the “Woman of Distinction” Award, which went to blogger Heidi MacDonald (from Comicon.com’s The Beat). Continue Reading
The archives of Digger by Ursula Vernon, Magellan by Stephen Crowley, and Pishio the Cat by Zack Giollongo have all been freed temporarily, through the end of WCCA voting.
As reported earlier Narbonic by Shaenon Garrity on Modern Tales and The Stiff by Jason Thompson on Girlamatic are also free temporarily. Continue Reading
The Narbonic archive on Modern Tales is temporarily free for WCCA voters. And, well, for everybody. Enjoy … and then subscribe!
http://www.moderntales.com/series.php?name=narbonic
The full archives of Girlamatic’s The Stiff is also free through July 11th. Continue Reading
As a sort of unofficial tip of the hat to Free Comic Book Day, and to celebrate our recent recovery from a catastrophic server crash, Girlamatic.com’s archives will be free to all visitors all day on Saturday, May 7, 2005, starting at midnight Eastern time.
The creepy horror/fantasy comic Ballad by deadmouse has joined the Modern Tales lineup.
Modern Tales has added two new series to its regular line-up: The Trouble with Igor by Chris Reilly and Sheldon the Pig by Kevin Moore
Joey Manley promises several more new strip launches in the next couple of months. “We’re just waiting for contract to come in.” Continue Reading
Modern Tales has started a collective blog at Talk About Comics for cartoonists from the Modern Tales family to post news, hype, wit, and wisdom.
Talk About Comics will continue to host forums for webcomics and creators at this new URL. Continue Reading
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